The politics and poetics of Cicero's Brutus the invention of literary history

Cicero's Brutus (46 BCE), a tour-de-force of intellectual and political history, was written amidst political crisis: Caesar's defeat of the republican resistance at the battle of Thapsus. This magisterial example of the dialogue genre capaciously documents the intellectual vibrancy of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van den Berg, Christopher Sean
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2023
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index